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Henry C. Thomsen and his wife, Ellen Margrethe, were active members of the resistance in northern Denmark. Their inn was the meeting place for fishermen who transferred Jews in their boats to Sweden, where they could be safe. When there were too many to transport, Thomsen made the trips himself. He was arrested in 1944 and sent to a concentration camp, where he died four months later at the age of thirty-eight. About one thousand Jews fled to Sweden from this area.
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